‘I’ve sacked people for sitting down’: Undercover inside JD Sports
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2017
- Exposed: the shocking treatment some low paid workers face at JD Sports’ huge warehouse.
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I worked for JD Sports warehouse in Rochdale at the summer of 2017 and this reporting is 100% accurate.
why work for them
maybe because he needed to pay bills or eat?
MrGifster i’m not defending what they did, but you have to remember this is a corporation, if they want to fire someone they will, if they want to do anything they can legally, remember they are not breaking the law, what they’re doing is wrong, but not illegal
@@@ sean sands... maybe he likes to eat foods or heat his house or pay his council tax.
OR MAYBE HE WAS FRIGHTENED THEY WOULD STOP HIS BENEFIT entitlement
@@frank1847 How can he a ford it working for jd sports especially the wages they pay
Watches evidence with own eyes
JD: "doesn't happen mate"
Insulting
@Bayley Massey Present age ;( ;(
fucking cunts
They do it on purpose, to show they got you by the bulls
Amazon are the same
Never going to shop at JD. This is appalling I feel so sorry for the employees.
I don't feel sorry for them most of them defend their exploiters to the hilt, they are right wing working class tories, brexit!
"I've sacked people for sitting down" said the supervisor, probably returning to sit down
Supervisor still down all day
To be fair to him he probably has to sack people for sitting down. I don’t think he has a choice
@@matthewdooley9046 he kind of does have a choice its more discretion if he sees they been working flat out and catching there breath back for a few mins just let it go if they are experienced workers and it becomes a point where they are doing it just to be lazy then thats when you got to talk to them but being her first week as well they are going to get tired quickly he shouldnt of made them work like that hes a terrible supervisor i dont see leadership i see a guy on a power trip a good supervisor would of given them a hand and woulldnt pushed new workers that hard right away its a golden rule ive always stuck too i never let anyone do something where i wouldn't be willing to do my self or haven't done before
Literally pissed me off the way he spoke to the person
@@evildeed90s yeah it comes down to whether the boss is a decent person
The only people shocked by this undercover footage are people who don't HAVE TO take a minimum pay job. Newsflash, it looks like this in almost EVERY SINGLE large warehouse!
I worked at MandM Direct last christmas and it was the same, we were promised work and a job all through til this year and everybody got dropped instantly after christmas. The conditions were just as bad.
That,s why it is now a third would country
I wont last 5 minutes i,m proud of it
I was going to say the exact same thing, this is the norm.
it's competition...obviously, everyone has to lower to these standards to compete with them. Luckily here in Italy, we don't have the SAME situation..I'd say we are 1/3 of how bad is it there...
Owners, CEO's and Directors, etc should go to court for stuff like this. It's a disgrace that such conditions are allowed to arise.
100% they sit on billions of £'s of profit a year whilst workers are treated like this.
If thieving wasn’t inbred these days jd sports wouldn’t have to do this!
No, people should study harder in school or read marketing books and start their own business. Don’t be lazy and expect better pay.
@@danieIlondonSo you think this kind of bullying and abuse is acceptable?
@@danieIlondon
What an absolute idiotic statement. Just study hard and start your own business? In what world is it realistic for Everyone to start their own businesses? There will always be a need for lower end jobs and there will always be a need for workers. Being Lazy is one thing. Being exploited and abused is another.
You'd be wise to learn the difference.
Massive respect for all those workers. They’re people, not animals nor robots and they deserve to be treat like people.
Disgusting what I saw. 3 strikes? It’s not baseball lads. Big up all those workers and many workers facing that sort of disgusting behaviour
I worked at Booker and they where exactly like this, then I worked at Ocado and similar behaviour from coordinators, thinking they are the boss. Ocado where good at pretending to care and some managers where decent people, however they repeatedly messed up peoples wages, they took away two of are holiday days and made us buy them back. Got made redundant 8n October because they didn't require Me anymore.
i grew up working in 2003 era moving or construction constantly working I could complain but didnt, todays victim culture really pathetic
@@corysmith3447 I respect that
@@corysmith3447 "2003 era" ahaha mans like 40 and thinks hes been down the mines. Bro we had far better workers rights and protections back then while we were part of the EU and under labor....
@@corysmith3447 Congrats on living during times when you actually got paid.
I can say from my own experience this is true. Definitely felt like scum working there. Everyone was on knife edge not knowing what silly thing they were going to get sacked for. It felt like a prison camp. The only good thing about the place was the people I met
If I worked there I’d end up knocking someone out. Seriously
Well Pat so that knife to the chest didint finish you off
Knock out the managers ill do it
Youd get a strike for that.
Cameras everywhere.
Pat how did you escape from the morge and when are you planning to exact your revenge on the people of Coronation street
Excellent historical re-enactment of a Victorian Workhouse.
Thatchers plan working this was planed
You all ways get stupid menials work for pittance
@@seansands424 and some as you say (menials) have their hand forced bye the powers that be to take this kind of jobs or they have their money stopped, makes you think are the job centre managers in it with these agencies, figures figures figures
even worse..at least back then you weren't watched 24/7 with cameras and magnetic cards..
@@marktaylor2105 of course they are, JC is part of the DWP. i was signing on for a short while before getting my current job, and the amazon fulfilment just opened at the airport, and my local job centre was pretty much frog marching job seekers to amazon. luckily i got a job on my own within a couple of weeks before it happened to me! they tried, though...
i work at the same jd warehouse now and i can honestly say nothing has changed, still not allowed to sit down at all, still have to keep the kpi above target and the supervisors speak to recruitment staff like children, they still have thumbprint scanners you have to use every time you enter, every break and when you leave, still massive ques and they still have the 3 strike system, the worst thing for me is the constant standing up for 12 hours, it does feel like prison and its sad to watch this video from 2016 and nothing has changed, channel 4 need to do another undercover on this place because you would all be shocked at how little it has changed, i can honestly say im never buying anything from JD after working in the warehouse for 3 weeks and counting (until i get sacked for some stupid reason)
nobody is shocked, nobody cares, it's all been done as a drama show for the media.
Not gonna use JDs again either....the profits are kept for the people at the top who don't do any hard work.
Keep your workforce happy, run your ship efficiently.
Didn’t notice it was 6yrs ago the film was made. Terrible that nothing’s changed but why would it. The owners are likely Tory donors and people want their shite clothes with logos on incessantly. Baffles me how the amount of clothing is constantly produced. Sorry you have to work there friend. Best of luck.
@@FuknNoNameblame Tory always the move for any situation
Do you still work there 😂
I got a disciplinary for charging my phone in the staff room. My manager threatened to phone the police for theft of electricty. I was naive 18 yr old but I wish I'd told him to phone the police.
Then I asked a manager for help because a customer needed another size of tshirt and i wasnt allowed to leave the spot. Got a mouthful for interrupting him, so I just walked out the door.
Twelve years ago and i still think about!
The charging of phone situation happened to someone I knew.Where I can see the point to a extent ,the rule was not the same for all workers.One guy I worked with was reprimanded in the managers office for charging his phone in the staff room.He said while being lectured he noticed the managers phone on the desk ,with the lead dangling down and the phone being charged,blatantly in front of him.While technically you are using works electricity to charge the phone,it was basically one rule for the office gods and one for the peasants.
I feel ashamed for buying from this sham company. Never again.
It's quite normal for such warehouses...
Most of them are like that. Only a matter of whether or not they get exposed.
You should stop buying groceries then
same thing - or worse - in Sports direct, to put another retailer in the same sector. sadly same thing with Amazon, one of the biggest eretailers
but...why? have you ever worked with your hands before? this is literally just america.
these people got treated good compared to most american workers.
Do people not realise that for most of us under 30 this isn't even eye opening, especially if you work in hospitality. This is shitty, and it's life for most of us 😭
Seriously. Quite astounding that people are surprised that company's want you to work while getting paid.
I feel bad for you all... Seriously outrageous! 😔😡
@@TheBUGZNTA and in 12 hours if I sit down once it's OK I get fired?
@@BulletproofGOAT Yes, People working construction in the arizona heat get 30 mins in a 16 hour day to take a break and none of them are complaining. Working inside a building for 12 hours on your feet is rather reasonable.
BUGZNTA thank you, Glad someone said it.
I worked in a Wincanton warehouse in London for Sainsbury's. This report does not even shock me as I literally turned up to work one day and was let go. I am glad I walked away happily as I hated it but thought I was being picky or I needed experience.
I walked away and a few years late being more picky, I applied for a position in an office and asked for 25k annual income but was instead offered 28k. 3k more than I asked and that is how good companies work, they also only demanded 1 day in the office minimum and I said I would be happy to come in 5 days.
People need to realise they are far more valuable than their desperate situation might allow them to think.
"People need to realise they are far more valuable than their desperate situation might allow them to think", VERY WELL SAID.
Employment has become too much like being owned by someone
Good comment
Say it like it is. Employment in modern society is literally slavery.
As a fully licenced SIA badge holder and security officer of over 20 years JD sports your security practices are ridiculous, checking everyone 100% of the time is harassment.
Sia aswell buddy 👍I couldn't agree more security procedures are stupid
Me too sia security for over 20 years...an search on the person without justification is actual physical assault again taken aside or physically held say in an office is false detention and imprisonment accusing someone of fraud an criminal offence and accusation incidentally without evidences or taking the appropriate action is defamation slander injurious to the person and its all of this and possibly more if found unproven...meaning even i security if asked to behave in such an unlawfull fashion would only last about 5 mins with these people..
@@ericjarvie Its like the SIA gives the guard the training they need to do the job then you go work for a company that abuses that training given, SIA was brought in to clean up the image of security in the UK, well they are certainly good at giving them selves big bonuses while nearly all guards slave away on living wage on some shitty concentration camp or building site.
@Michael Solomon but I bet there board members get paid more than you'll ever see in your life time and probably steal stuff from the company all the time - work from home while sleeping in, have a meeting at an expensive restaurant where it's closer to play than work and its all put on the company credit card, etc.
With a company that large net profit doesn't have to be huge at the individual store level for the guys at the top to see huge amounts of money coming in.
nicholasowenjones - They put in the work to get to that position. Or brought value to the business to get the position. If you’re doing line packaging work you’ve got nothing to compare with someone of that position, period.
Disgusting behaviour. So JD and Sports Direct are 2 I won't be buying from now on
Danny what are you going to wear
@@terrierscottie alieee
This shop is responsible for the uniform of all chavs in the past 20 years. No one should EVER buy from them, and they should be shut down now.
@TIGERWOODSBOYFRIEND fucking love this comment hahaha 'chavacaust' was my personal favorite good day to you sir!
Danny you’re not going to buy from sports direct or JD sports, so you’re just going to buy from another company from overseas? Which by the way, endorses child labour
It's actually genius! Put a factory in a place with high unemployment and make them go via the job centre... We let this happen as a society
I was a packer of JD last year and I felt like a prisoner every day.
They still treat workers quit harsh and those rules are still exist .
Exposed? What are you exposing exactly? This is every warehouse in UK, ever.
666222333111 so true I worked in the Argos warehouse, exactly the same
@philip Trevor Unfortunately we just put up with it as we all need jobs
@@stu8998 the one in Essex Pipps Hill was terrible too!
Yeah cus everyone used to be nicking all the stock
I was just about to say this, All warehouses are like this
boycott these abusing companies, hit them where it hurts, dispicable behaviour towards your staff
this is common in all jobs of this type, warehouse jobs are known for this.
Prepare to learn how to live off the land if that's your plan mate.
@@That0Homeless0Guy ,i have not bought at any of them for a long time. I have nice trainers and a veg patch in my garden. but yes i do feed the beast in one way or another, everyday probably, I also run a business and iwould not use them methods, to motivate staff, incentives and security work for most. if not sack the lazy beggars
@@That0Homeless0Guy Designer trainers are not essentials.
They should go on strike or claim stress and get sick pay ... all of them and then JD will realise they have to improve
I worked at a well known high street fashion store in 2000 - 2003 in the Trafford Centre. Where we were bullied into getting shoppers to open store cards. The target was 1 a day on a shift. Failure to do so resulted in disciplinary action. Also physically disciplined by management twisting your arm to cause pain. One day I opened 10 and was hailed as a star employee, next day I got none and was put on the named and shame board. If you didn't get a customer to open a store card by the end of your shift, you had to stay late, unpaid. The culture of a threatening atmosphere by management was disgusting. My mental health deteriorated but as I needed a job you end up being trapped. I would say there are thousands of companies in the UK with horrendous conditions.
This is absolutely horrible I can’t believe the cheek of the managers
I WILL NOT purchase JD Sports items ever again... The brand has been tarnished beyond repair....
same here, jd sports is also quite expensive i think compared to sports direct and others like them.
I bet they will really miss you....
@@letsridebikes7716 - 50,00 other people change their purchases the same as me and they WILL......
@@DaviesMartinezBeats good luck with that. Let me know when that happens
There all like it. The phone you bought to comment was made by a little kid from China are u not going to buy phones
They should all just leave and go on the dole. Maybe supplement their income by shoplifting at JD sports.
Won't help the country but I hear what you're saying. At the very least I hope most leave and steal whatever they can from that miserable fucking place.
But if they leave JD sports, their benefits get cut (At the time of the video at least)
Union strike should be implemented. Or rally all the people to riot
we should all just take ourselves a slice
That's the issue, they're ON the dole. The government thought it would be a grand idea of putting these "lazy good for nothings" to work and make it mandatory to pickup any job you can or getting your benefits cut.
I have a friend who was on jobseekers allowance for a long time and had to take up working at places like Travis Perkins for 6 months FOR FREE in the hopes of getting hired after this testing period. Of course they let him go afterwards and said he wasn't a right fit or whatever. So they have a revolving door of free labor, just rejecting any applicants they get and the government/ corporations line their pockets a little more.
I really don't miss being unemployed or working minimum wage jobs. It's slavery re-branded, only at least 200+ years ago they actually gave you food and shelter, but now they pay you barely enough to afford food and shelter for yourself. Humanity is still making progress.. right?
We as a society have let this happen
Sounds a lot like a company I used to work for. The branch I worked at was closed down, employees offered a position at another branch miles away or take redundancy. All but two took redundancy. The woman from HR said she had never met a workforce so happy to be losing their jobs.
We need more journalism like this in the society, it is definitely effective in terms of creating changes, let's embrace and support such journalism with our comments to tv channels and government entities!
We need unions again
We are a Nation of plebs a laughing stuck who will work for pittance
This is trash journalism. As long as people are free to leave anytime. This is a non-story
Journalist dnt exist anymore they just tell you what somebody else wants them to now we need a global revolution
you clearly don't understand what freedom is. you can enslave people with more than physical chains and cages, some might think this is a side issue, but actually its at the core of the problem, wealth is created through physical endeavour, if you want wealth without the endeavour you have to steal it, slavery was a way of stealing others wealth creating endeavour, it's highly inneficient though and your responsible for the wealfare of your slaves, much better to create a system where all your slaves think they are free and you use other methods to get your hands on the wealth there efforts create. you also have to get creative in how you justify this theft.
Nobody:
JD Sports: That's a strike
every warehouse business does something similar to this, not just JD.
Shaq dat u ye
I worked in a Superdrug in Denton that doubled as a warehouse (despite being tiny), this is reminiscent of that. But JD Sports looks worse.
Some things are familiar though. Any item we owned which the store had in stock, we had go have signed by management. The receipt too if we bought it in-store. We had to spin a wheel at the day, the options were bag search, pockets search, or no search. We were shouted at for sitting down, sometimes given formal warnings for it. People worked to the point of physical pain, and sometimes fainting. I left when they introduced QR codes to our name badges that supervisors had to scan like a product bar code to sign us in and out with...the dehumanisation was insane.
The manager expected a team of 6-15 people (dependant on the rota) to get 800 orders minimum picked, packed, and put in vans for delivery in 1 day. She often pushed for 1000 though. She would sit at her desk in the back office half the time watching us on the CCTV cameras, which she always had open. The turnover rate was insane, naturally. As were staff stress levels.
I do IT support now and I'm a lot happier.
Slave labour was never abolished , just brassed over over time .
As a Warehouse Manager here in America I can tell you I'm appalled. Absolutely a shame to treat your staff this way. I genuinely love my crew and would do anything for them, and they would do anything for me. Shame on you JD Sports, and other British Ops teams that mimic this disgusting management style.
It's a genuine problem across the UK. It stems from pencil pushers being jobsworths and trying to make a name for themselves. I know someone who was genuinely sick, but as they worked in food service had a legal obligation to report it, went sick, came back, final warning. they should have just ignored the laws and kept working.
it is good you have this working relationship with your fellow employees as you are paid higher but still an employee , and buiding the bonds in your crew keep folk happy in work , build themup , make them proud about what they do , this is the secret to workplace harmony , jd follow a completely different path
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Are you and your team employed directly by the same company?
The whole warehouse should walk out... Watch it fold.. power to the ppl 👍🏻
@d3adsoulja that's why having unions is a good idea.
There will be 3 shifts and the warehouse will be runnong 247
Theres a reason why they can get rid of you so easy because you can easily be replaced. Its that simple lol
@@yeahman147 keep walking out & get a TV cheeky camera in there.. (no wait)
@zimalin chances are many ppl will watch this & not want to work there..
My sister worked here for a week on 12 hour shift and her ankles were swollen and red cause they would not let her sit down and the supervisors were constantly on her back so she left.
ive seen prisons with less security
Sadly, the lower the wage, the more work is expected.
And therein lies the flaw with the all-too-often touted illogic: “Just work harder!” If the privileged in our society knew for even a second just how difficult the lives of the working class are, they would vote and/or campaign to do something about it. Those who do know unfortunately don’t care.
@@GarethPW Exactly right
I do the hardest job at the warehouse but i got paid 190 for 36 hours
@@alih8615 wtf barely more than 5 an hour. Is the job really physically demanding?
I’ve been a poor man, I’ve been a rich man. You get paid for the application of your skills. learn some skills and you’ll get a better job. The plight of the working class is ignorance and more often than not a victim mentality.
Usually the managers exact that sort of power on people, because it's the only place they have any.
Yep ! That's a huge problem here in the USA too ! Pathetically lame PEOPLE who don't have any control over THEIR own life THEY get the feeling of power to control and execute THEIR will upon others who are perceived as below them in the power chain !!!!
Generally the worst managers are the ones working in unskilled work. Because they have zero skills they always feel very insecure and take it out on everyone else. Being so poorly skilled also means that there is very little in the way of hierarchy so they fear for their jobs as they're just as disposable as anyone else and they know it.
Where I work, a metal fabrication and engineering workshop, the labourers are much more skilled and harder to replace than any manager in the JD sports warehouse. They're also paid £12 an hour basic. Even as a labourer for my workshop, these managers would be completely out of their league.
Talk about insecure.
mrdojob I used to work in a horticultural nursery and the manager there was awful, constantly nit picking and if you went upstairs 1 minute early you would be called into the office. They even threatened to dock people’s wages, this isn’t the 1970s.
Small man syndrome
power corrupts and the people at the top don't care as long as the targets are reached.
Take legal action against them. Warehouse workers have been subject to horrific harassment and workplace intimidation
Good luck
I'd love to take a job there just to bully one of those bully supervisors, even if only for an hour just make them feel uncomfortable for all the hassle they have caused others
Anybody else get Black Mirror vibes when the music played over the tannoy?
The finger print thing aswell
Nope...could be because I’ve not seen it though
Craig shut up
So much
Back when Black Mirror was worth watching
i applied to JD for a summer job, first shift was 14 hours so didnt go...im glad
😂😂😂😂
@Lee Unless the two digits start with 2 doesn't seem like its worth losing your dignity like that. And it would never be that high lol
I thought 12 hours was the legal limit?
@@scottigertiger6430 maybe it was 12 im not sure but it was definetly double digits
@@scottigertiger6430 no its 16
every warehouse is pretty much like this
Exactly what I went through at amazon , bullying from start to finish
Is it true u had to urinate in bottles?
@@blue_red_screen I regularly saw bottles of urine left on the shelves, the toilets were so far from some areas of the building that to go there and back would take 10 minutes, which would be 'time off task' and would count against you. If people want change in these places they have to stand up to management, but most people are weak and just do as they're told. It's sad.
I have worked in places exactly like this as a line worker, picker, and a security guard. It made me downright suicidal. Quitting and learning basic coding was the best thing I have done in my life.
What do you do with your basic coding skills?
@@pflernakthere is still demand even for basic web coders (provided one takes time to cobble together at least some basic project to show during the interview). I used to convert designs into html,css,jquery etc., now I'm helping with front-end as well.
Well done for quitting and doing something different. It does take quite a bit of courage.
Same thing I'm tryna do right now and save up while working so I'm able to invest money
How did u learn to code mate and which language? Was it free or did u pay for an online course etc
The only difference between this and prison is...
they pay for your lunch in prison
They get paid, are allowed to leave & don't get raped. But yeah no free lunch.
Sounds like a school though?
Well at least working at JD you don't have to masturbate with a load of guys.
It's nothing like prison
@@CrawfordGrimaldi You sure about that?
This is common in almost all warehouse Jobs in UK
“That’s fraud.” lol I laughed at that
It's looks like a concentration camp, just coz you employ someone doesn't mean you own them. Boycott JD!!
I got kicked and banned cause I sat on the floor for 2 hours telling the customers buying stuff where to go
JD and other companies are like the job centre staff, capita asos etc.. treating us as sub human cattle in old victorain wirk houses ran by profit nazis
ROBERT J KIS Warehouses work is awful
FEEL sorry for the workers who had been treated like a piece of garbage.
@Jumbo Doyle in your dreams
No point feeling sorry.
The workers are there by consent.
They are not marched in there at the point of a gun barrel.
Humans are a resource to be used and exploited like Sheep and Cattle.
This is why Corporations have HUMAN RESOURCES departments.
The clues are in front of your eyes .
Open them and take a closer look.
You like many others believe and accept the Political Correctness BS.
Skirting around things for fear of offending some weak minded man or woman
.. Be direct and to the point, be polite and forget the Political Correctness BS
you have as a society been indoctrinated with.
Andrew_koala That attitude is absolutely fucking revolting. Some of these people may be young or have low skill and no alternative but to take a job like this to make ends meet. Just because someone is there by “consent”, does that means they are not entitled to be treated like a human being and not constantly degraded? Everyone, no matter where they work should be entitled to be treated with respect, especially when owners of big companies can be very exploitative individuals, making bank without being remotely ethical.
This has absolutely nothing to do with political correctness, it’s about basic empathy and your line of thinking is very sociopathic and exploitative. I’d suggest you get some therapy if these are truly your beliefs.
@ CoolSpurs
It has to be realized and be clear in the mind of the people that Capital'ism
like all other ISM's are creations of Jewish Zionists and supported by Western
Christian ZIonists.
Capitalism is for THEIR benefit and not for the people of the general population,
who are merely a HUMAN RESOURCE to be used.
CORPORATIONS do not have any loyalty to the people nor the employees,
loyalty id reserved for the Corporate Investors and Bankers.
The Capitalism is wrapped in a vine-leaf called DEMO cracy.
Every software Engineer knows what a DEMO is.
It is also a system where 1% own more than the bottom 50% combined, 50%
are doing fine and the remaining 49% of the so called DEMOcracy will have
to accept and live with the crumbs, scraps and 'Privileges' that the 51%
decide to give them.
What kind of a democracy is that?
Their fake democracy does not work.
Now you realize why it is a DEMO CRAZY...
Capital'ism is a virus, and a cure for Capitalism needs to be found and implemented
Democracy is not working as well as imagined.
Don't worry it's only a DEMO. Ask a software developer what DEMO means.
Then you will better understand what DEMO-cracy means.
The USA is Disneyland run by a bunch of sadistic clowns.
The top 51% are doing fine, the remaining 49% have to accept the crumbs
that given to them as 'Privileges'
What about their rights I ask?
Though there is a solution.
COMMENT REFERENCE: CoolSpurs.2019052711545
@@andrew_koala2974Genius alert 🤣
I honestly wouldn't last an hour working somewhere like that. I'm a machine operator in a factory and used to working at a fast pace and having targets to achieve, also being uncomfortably hot in the summer but the flip side is we're paid fairly with a generous holiday allowance, company sick pay, nearly 2 weeks off for Christmas and a decent company pension. We are also treated with respect by management . If a supervisor or manager working at our company spoke to people in the manner shown in this video then they would rightly be out of a job. How companies can get away with this in 2023 is a disgrace!
This was 6 years ago, so not 2023.
It's still happening in 2023, I can assure you. Royal Mail are one of the worst offenders. They treat their staff and also their customers like dirt. We've regressed back to Victorian attitudes. Bullying, intimidation, favouritism, lying to staff, spying on them ( sorry, tracking them ! ). Awful way to treat a workforce, all because of greed
@@MrAngry-im3ol there's absolutely no context for your claims to be considered accurate.
@mydogeatspuke Happy staying in denial.
@@JB-el3mo not believing a stranger's hysterical screeching online isn't being in denial mate. It's being sane.
Worked in a warehouse like this for all of 2 days while job hunting ... Left because I had a career before working there and knew that work wasn't supposed to feel like that. Looking around was sad. The workers genuinely believed that it was normal to be treat like that. Horrendous place. Anyone that reads this and is working at a place like this just know you are better than this! Do some online certifications to progress yourself and work elsewhere while doing this. Anywhere but a place like this. Being spoken down to is not the norm at work.
I have a degree and forced to work here, it truly is awful. Why not quit? The warehouse is located in a town with lots of poor areas and people are desperate for money. Treated like shit just so the people at the top can squeeze as many pennies as possible without killing its workers. Just enough to keep them coming back.
Yup, and then you hear people say "work to get yourself out of it" or "there's other jobs out there" etc sometimes you can be in a hopeless position and that's it.
dont put up with it
"I have a degree" - in what? from where?
@@TheAlexagius he's get a degree in studying dank memes
This is the best Undercover Boss I have seen in a while! 😂😈
:D
Only in England can this be allowed to happen. Agency have zero employment rights.
It happens everywhere sadly
If only people would boycott them & show them it’s unacceptable to treat their staff with such disrespect, looks like it’s happening across the board. Sports direct & Amazon also treat their workers the same. Plenty of evidence out there to back this up.
Picket their stores. That’ll put a dent in the shareholders pockets!!
Boycott them for who though? It seems most companies have these types of practises so am I not supposed to buy any food, clothes or essentials for the house or any items whatsoever. Its impossible to boycott when every company does this and every company exploits slave labour in China and other Asian nations. Whats needed is government enforcement of labour protections to end this that is the only way it will end.
I heard horror stories when I was on job seeker's allowance. Lads had been sent to warehouses 40 miles away, had to pay for their own transport, usually starting before 6am and once they got there it was a 50/50 chance they would actually get any work that day. There were white boards with names and hours on it. If your name wasn't on the board, you went home with no pay. This happens in warehouses all over the UK.
The job center itself was just as bad, a cattle market. I was bounced around training courses for nine months. I'd been sent to "CV workshops" five times. Six hours sitting in an office just to walk out with a new CV each time. I quickly realized I was only there to keep the workers at the job center in a job.
I made my CV back in secondary and have only made adjustments when needed to input details of my employment experiences.
Why are you struggling with creating a "passable" CV?? If that's the case, how are you going to get a job?
They bounce you around these courses hoping you won't attend, so they can cut you off
@@MrFreebrowsingis that really wrong? They don't send people on pip on these courses its just the ones that are allegedly already looking for work (jobseekers). People go on benefits designed to support you while looking a job and then complain when they're told they need to look for work. The fact you can fail and still not starve is amazing.
Facts, They make a killing woth these agencys also.
I remember i got let go from a job, still getting through the issues i had with manager i told job coach about, the work coach told me, right, i need in the next 2 days, go out and sign up to like 4 - 6 agencies a day after I lost my job, well suffering from Sever Social Anxiety and doing something like that would take me under 7 days, but within 2? not even 48 hours, he insisted i had to go in person, couldn't do it over the phone the guy was a complete asshole, didn't care at all, oh and he signed me up for a bunch of useless courses that i'm far to "Qualified for" literally done so many courses previously on CV, interviews etc, that everything they try to teach me, I already know. so just wasting even more time i could be at home searching for jobs.
16-19 year old's need to watch this instead of writing JDSports' owner fan fiction
I was on more money in the 70,s
16-19 They think they know all, and now who is the stupid one, they are to stupid look what they put up with and they do nothing we wont have put up with this in the 70,s menials are so stupid no back bone
Your comment is ironic given the fact you seem to have the grammatical ability of a first grader.
@@seansands424 Is English your native language?
@@ACombineSoldier aww did you get offended by that statement? They guys only stating fact. Dont see what grammer had anything to do with his argument, could you please explain?
And I thought the workhouses closed over 100 years ago…..
This is every company in the world big and small.
And no one in the mainstream media is talking about it.
Got sacked from a jd sports store for using my mobile phone to actually bring delivery into the store for them to let me in through back door in the loading bay, safe to say best thing they have ever done for me, now earning twice as much
That's great to hear
Good for you, mate
Where u work at now?
Great reporting!
Disgusting they make you queue to leave work.
@@Valliant2007 but at least free to have a smoke if they want.
The mighty UK Amazon do the same long queues after shifts, workers in their own time while they conduct personal searches.
You should be able to queue 15\20 mins before the end of your shift, that way it's the companies time and you're being paid.....no way I would waste 30 mins per shift WAITING to leave or start!!
It's their policy so why are staff penalised!?
Kodiakbear They have no relationship with the worker only that they empower you.if you don't confirm your gone
It's going back to victorian times and these company's are the new work houses.
Anyone with any self pride would not entertain going back after a stint and in turn cutting the parasite agencies fund supply
I had the misfortune of doing three weeks in 2011 as I had been laid off but it felt like three months all I can say it was an experience not to be repeated
@@kodiakbear3076 if they had to pay you to stand there doing nothing, they'd quickly stop the searches. It'd be cheaper to lose some stuff and search just two dozen heads per shift. Clock out should be after search queue.
Depressing and dystopian. A great fit for modern Britain!
If you’re breathing that’s a warning, if you blink that’s another warning, if your heart is beating about 102bpm that’s another warning, if we find more than 0.8 Nani grams of skin cells on your workstation, that will lead to suspension pending an inquiry, then more often than not a termination.
Absolutely sickening.
Zero hour contract agency work should be outlawed. I did it for a long time and you have no rights, no support and no security. It's not just JD or sports direct, it's everywhere. Literally every single agency I worked for was the same, and I worked for a few seeing as I was just disposed of when they were done with me. Dangling the carrot tactics, threats of dismissal, threats of being 'benched', closely monitored performance statistics, prison like security, salaried staff whipping you all day and night, working hours for free, the list goes on it's just relentless. At the end of it all you don't even get paid well, if they remember to pay you at all!
Zero hours should be paid more than min wage, 10%
This is why people need strong unions in their work places. We live in a toxic country where wages and working conditions are being continuously exploited so profit can be maximised, no matter the human cost. Things are getting worse, not better.
Anyone else get a Unskippable JD ad within first 15 minutes 😂😂😅
Seriously I wouldn't last 5 minutes in there because one of those "supervisors" would get a good hiding
Up the ra 🇮🇪
I be the same
Exactly.
100% They would get a good smack
The only reason they take it from them is because there is literally no other option nowadays, you have to just put up with shitty jobs like this because people are worth nothing nowadays.
Remember when I got laid off from a well paid job on building site after 4 years. Got a temp job at a warehouse, and it was exactly like this. I only lasted two weeks before I ended up in a heated argument with a bully supervisor who used to try and intimidate other workers; definitely didn’t work on me. Wouldn’t ever recommend working in a warehouse unless you have no other option
I did night shifts in a warehouse for a few weeks to save up a bit of money. Almost exactly the same conditions. Only thing that kept me going was the fact I knew I was leaving very soon.
Medieval peasants had more dignity than this.
Disgraceful those managers should be ashamed of themselves, treating workers like slaves, they're human too not robots
I worked for JD in a shop back in 2005/6 and this sort of stuff was happening then
No body do, s nothing about it
What sort of stuff? ...you go there to work, to do a job you follow systems and rules = work. You work 12 hour shifts and you get time off, there are laws and regs. Brits have no idea how the other half live, in the rest of the world.
@@jakoflynn2560 we developed hard won employment laws over many many decades to prevent the exploitation of workers by unscrupulous employers. I think you will find even the orange man who presided over the US at the moment is anti immigration on the basis that it undermines American wages via cheap imported labour driving down wage rates and that these immigrants are often exploited in the work place via practices that the average American wouldn't tolerate. Cheap exploited labour in unregulated working environments provides unfair competitive advantage over responsible industries in the same sector who adhere to decent working practices, pay and conditions. Before you reply that I'm racist ect, no I'm not, I'm just pointing out what is happening and reasons as to why it's happening and it's detrimental effects to everybody.
@@lincolndave1966able get a job
@@michaeltrobinson729 Wild Will, I have a job, I have been in full time employment since gaining a degree 33 years ago so I'm afraid your comment has little relevance pertaining to my employment status. You are of course welcome to try another cheap shot but please forgive me if I am inclined not to respond because as Mark Twain once said "Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience".
Three Strikes? Supervisor! "What mate?" Right, Left, Uppercut. Good night
That's ridiculous. Makes me glad my warehouse is barely managed and noone is ever bothered as long as the work is done.
This is what happens when you give a company too much leverage, they have little incentive to improve conditions for their workers. They are raking it in and they still turn up to work for these greedy corporations.
17:06 "Kill me Now" writen in labels on the backboard.
That says it all. Quite depressing to see that. I bet that person was sacked for putting that up there.
Surprised it wasn’t torn down
@@sassychumpkins4639 IKR
A J no I mean by a supervisor
Definitely got a strike for that
Never buying from JD Sports again, EVER!!! Wicked horrible people...
I pledge, I won't step in another JD sport shop. I do buy sports gear a lot. Not from there anymore.
I too once worked in smiliar circumstances. I have worked hard to get out of there. I feel it too real.
@@roshlouis8767 No way!! Feel sorry for you, but you made the right decision...
@@roshlouis8767 I wouldn't call it a sports shop anymore lol it's more of a chav shop
The problem is that not buying will only affect the workers in warehouse, for affective change new laws are needed and for that to be likely we need a new party in charge
Careful, you might find that you won't be able to shop anywhere.
I’m speechless at the level of disbelief at JD sports warehouses as an ex Amazon worker and I thought the way Amazon treat there staff was disgusting JD take it to another level, I’ve never shopped at JD Sports and never will after watching this video
As someone who works in warehouse’s unfortunately it’s not just JD sports it’s literally luck of the draw with different warehouses. I have always said the agencies send me to warehouse that treats staff like humans as I won’t put up with toss pot managers treating staff like dogs. I always say to anyone going for warehouse work refuse to put up with Toss pot managers and working conditions that are poor there’s plenty of warehouses that will treat you good.
This is why I hate big companies.. This erra of lifestyle will end one day
Thatcher has won
Asnes45 not all big companies are bad
Come back 1970,s all is for given
This is big buisness everywhere. Not just the UK
It is too long we all be dead and gone by the time that happens, what is the point of living
Anyone still wonder why British Unions became so militant? About time for a repeat I would say.
Stay staunch
Preach
I bet 6 years later it's exactly the same if not worse.
This is retail folks. Its similar in your local supermarket, behind the scenes.
worked for amazon for a few weeks now i never buy anything from them its the same conditions as this
My ex worked at an Amazon warehouse. She said the same.
It was like a prison and everyone was treated like thieves.
Amazon barely produce any of the goods tho lol, but yeah I get you, they earn a lot of the revenue
Do an undercover video
I’m sure they did undercover video on them few years ago. About how many steps one takes on shift was like they walk 10 miles while scanning and the bleeping noise
which branch
So UA-cam recommends me this video almost 2 years after it was first uploaded... okay then. By the way, most warehouses are like this whatever the shop. The UK is a joke with the way it exploits its citizens when we're one of the richest nations on earth.
All this about one of the richest national in the planet. Have seen our debt. It is the second biggest in the world after USA. We are the 6 highest in GDP but second in debt. Scary how much debt we actually have.
@@ABanRocks that doesn't justify taking advantage of people in need tho?
Worked for Amazon UK for 5 years and it was exactly the same, jobs are just rare to come by in a lot of areas and that forces people into this type of work, if the company hadn't ruined my mental health i'd probably still be there
@@LegaliseTeddySex you would think that in a better and more friendly environment the productivity of the workforce would naturally increase instead of this inhumane and disrespectful treatment from these bosses whose power has got to their heads. Hope your mental health and happiness is recovering positively. 👍
@@ABanRocks you obviously don't know how money is created. its a debt based system my friend.
Is this why an order takes 3 months?
I worked at an Amazon warehouse for 3 months, it is EXACTLY like this. I couldnt handle it.
I worked there for 2 months and I was never more depressed in my life please people never go here
umer nisar why didn’t u quit
OfficialMe because a job is a job things need paid for you could hate a job but need it to pay for rent food etc unfortunately
It was a terrible place to work
This treatment of employees in this day & age is just totally unacceptable, I will most definitely never ever buy from JD Sports again after watching this! What a miserable existence these poor workers have, (apart from the heartless managers) I feel so very sorry for them :(
worked there in 2022, nothing has changed. Fingerprint when you arrive, when you get to your department, before you leave on break, when you get near the canteen, scan your badge when going toilet and inside the canteen so your time spent there is monitored, scan fingerprint again one minute before your break ends, when you get back to your department, before you end your shift and when you finally leave. Clocking in one minute after your break or before end shift will be cut from your wage. Only 2 unpaid breaks in 12h, have to wait 4+ hours for your break, not allowed to sit at all. Supervisors are allowed to wear branded watches and jewellery and sit all day. Horrible conditions, very draining, really feels like prison.
Ive worked warehousing most my working life and pretty much every place ive worked is similar to this
Most people don't seem to realise what people are often put through so you can have items on the shelves in shops or delivered to your door
Im convinced places like this are why male suicide is so high, it's bad enough being on minimum wage struggling to make ends meet without people picking at you and keeping you in a constant state of panic and fear all day
Have you thought about changing jobs or something? Easy to say I know but come on!!!
Companies know there is a limitless flow of desperate, low skilled foreign workers that'll do anything for a job.
Paul Wilday The workers who will disappear after Brexit.
@@SH3RIFF187 Sadly they won't. There are many from non-eu nations like pakistan who will remain.
muslims are work shy when you say foreign workers you mean the native anglos
Yeah this is bad but imagine what it's like for the workers that actually make those products
its very unlikely there are many workers making half of those products. robots are a lot more common than ppl think. theyve been mainstream for *at least* a decade in manufacturing
Ghryst VanGhod what world do you live in lol? When you said robot did you mean 8 year old Asian kid??
They probably get to sit down.
Exactly.
Pedro Goss Welcome to the layer cake son.
I bet the managers ect wouldn't hit the targets.
Every warehouse in the UK is like this. Warehouses is where dreams come to die. Seen so many young fellas lose the hope in their eyes and turn to mindless zombies in a few months...
I will never shop at JD again, shocking really
Dont worry, it gets better.
See when you take that delicious £200 wage home you get to put it into rent or mortgage, both of which are raised by engineered scarcity in the housing market.
Or you can put it in the bank where you'll get an interest rate which doesn't match inflation ... strangely this is the norm among all banks, almost like they got together and had a bit of a chat.
(Im not suggesting a cartel though, cause cartels are highly illegal. Any banker doing that would end up in prison with all the other bad bankers who got locked up)
Anyway, the good news to all of this is that should the banks, which kindly store (and make profit off) your (devalued) cash, ever flounder you don't have to worry, because they'll simply nationalize their debts.
Just like they nationalize their profits .... yep.
I know this because I live in Ireland, where the private debts of anglo-irish bank were gently slid across the table into the folder marked 'Irish public'. weeeee.
Take care of this 40 bn tab would you.
Strangely I can't remember a time where the banks placed profits in that same folder.
It must have happened, its just me, i must be low on plasma again.
Tesco warehouse is just as bad if not worse than this.
Craig Robinson Tesco are normally known to look after there staff, that shocking if it’s true
mike currie Truly shocking isn’t it mike
@@tedcrilly46 wow
4 years later and it’s even worse
I worked here around 4 years ago. I was "let go" because I had a seizure and dislocated my arm. I was told two weeks (even with a Doc's note) was not good enough and "if you want your job back, you will need to apply again"....Now it seems even worse than it was before. Like so many others, the only thing they care about is money and literally nothing else. I pity their families, so much money and not one need is met
Did you Sue them?
Let me clarify. They did not cause a seizure. I wasn't at work at the time. I was told "If you have a sling around your arm we will have to let you go. So, I felt that rather than giving me something to do that didn't require my left arm, they said not to bother coming back. They also said my job would remain open but of course, it didn't@@chronicle-toxic8409
"if that was a designer watch you'd get a strike" said whilst hes wearing a G Shock watch... 😂
Every watch is designed by someone so where do they draw the line? Ridiculous
EpicGurth They’ll assume that you stole from the warehouse hence no branded clothing/ items
Designer labels
@@JonathanEvans6 It is a power thing to put us plebs in our place